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Titan Comics 2016 July-Dec.Pdf ® WELCOME TO TITAN COMICS SUMMER/FALL 2016 PREVIEW! 2016 has been astonishing for Titan Comics and our loyal readers so far! But that’s nothing! The second half Assassin’s Creed Assassin’s Creed Assassin’s Creed Assassin’s Creed Doctor Who of the year is going to be truly off the chain so buckle- Awakenings Locus Templars Supremacy Of The Cybermen CHECKLIST up for some high-octane sequential stunners! A whole new slate of outstanding NEW and CLASSIC titles are coming to your comic store, all from the world’s greatest graphic pioneers! In this preview, ORDERING DETAILS: you can get the inside track on breaking news and All of Titan Comics’ titles are available to order in Diamond Previews each month, exclusive previews of some top-flight Comics and as well as digitally through comiXology, Amazon Kindle, iBooks and other Graphic Novels being released in the Summer/Fall of Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who The Third Doctor The Ninth Doctor The Tenth Doctor The Eleventh Doctor The Twelfth Doctor devices. 2016! Let’s dive in! Titan’s graphic novel collections are distributed to comic stores by Diamond, Ricky Claydon, Direct Sales Manager and to bookstores by Random House Distribution, LBS, and NewSouth Limited. Readers – ask your local retailer to add MYCROFT HOLMES AND THE our exciting titles to your pull-list! APOCALYPSE HANDBOOK By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld RETAILERS & Joshua Cassara Retailers – to find out more from Image by Paul McCauffrey Marketing Manager Ricky Claydon Torchwood Dark Souls Mycroft Holmes Sherlock Warhammer 40,000: A Study In Pink Will Of Iron and the team email ricky.claydon@ And The Apocalypse Handbook titanemail.com. From exclusive variants and early previews to creator access and more, there are plenty of opportunities to promote our titles in your store! REVIEWS: Reviewers – all our titles are available for early review. Have a site or publication? Contact william.o’mullane@titanemail. com to join our reviewer list! FOREIGN RIGHTS: Foreign Rights – for more information Dishonored The Mummy Penny Dreadful Vikings: Uprising Rivers Of London about rights available in your territory, Black Mould please contact [email protected] Triggerman Peepland Tank Girl: Gold Hookjaw Century’s End www.titan-comics.com Pacific Samurai Chimera Brigade Masked World War X Brothers In Arms MANGA ADVENTURES A BRAND NEW IN THE TIME OF ASSASSIN’S MINI-SERIES SPINNING OUT OF CREED®: BLACK FLAG! THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED ASSASSIN’S CREED THE LAST DESCENDANTS Jump back into the world NOVELS PUBLISHED ® IN SEPTEMBER BY of Edward Kenway, lead SCHOLASTIC BOOKS! character of the best-selling fan favorite game, Assassin’s Dive into the sordid Creed®: Black Flag, in this underworld of Victorian beautiful manga. London, and the memories of LOCUS New Yorker, Tommy Greyling. Tommy teams up with Evie Return to the Golden Age Frye and Henry Green as he of Pirates once more and hunts for the answers to a relive the adventures of the mystery that could change brilliant young captain! the world! WRITER WRITER YANO TAKASHI IAN EDGINTON AWAKENING ARTIST ARTIST OIWA KENJI CASPAR WIJNGAARD 48 PAGES • $4.99 32 PAGES • $3.99 ® ASSASSIN’S CREED 6 ISSUE MINI-SERIES 4 ISSUE MINI-SERIES LAUNCHING NOVEMBER LAUNCHES SEPTEMBER NOT FINAL COVER FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE ASSASSIN’S CREED® MOVIE RELEASED DECEMBER 2016! FROM IAN EDGINTON (2000AD) AND RISING STAR CASPAR WIJNGAARD (LIMBO) ASSASSIN’S CREED ® NOVEL THE LAST DESCENDANTS IS AN ALL-NEW SERIES BASED ON THE HIT UBISOFT® VIDEO GAME FRANCHISE ASSASSIN’S CREED®. LAUNCHING SIMULTANEOUSLY IN SEPTEMBER 2016 IN THE US, CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND! NEW MINI-SERIES COMIC TIES INTO THE SMASH HIT ASSASSIN’S CREED®: SYNDICATE GAME! PRINTED IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME! © 2016 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. UNCOLORED ARTWORK - CASPAR WIJNGAARD ASSASSIN’S CREED® FROM THE WORLD OF THE MOVIE RELEASED AWARD-WINNING DECEMBER 2016! VIDEO GAME SERIES! ASSASSIN’S CREED ® Leap into the mysterious The Order of the Templar underground world of have worked tirelessly for the Assassin’s Creed®! For betterment of humankind, centuries, the Brotherhood seeking peace and unity and TEMPLARS of the Assassins have freedom through been waging a silent war peaceful control. against the Templar Order. Charlotte De La Cruz is the But such a distinguished newest member, using the order will always have iconic Animus to relive the enemies who seek to disrupt, memories of her ancestors those few who seek to derail stored in her DNA! the noble goals of the many. They are... the Black Cross. WRITERS ASSASSINS ANTHONY DEL COL & WRITER CONOR MCCREERY FRED VAN LENTE ARTIST ARTIST NEIL EDWARDS DENNIS CALERO ® ASSASSIN’S CREED 32 PAGES • $3.99 32 PAGES • $3.99 MONTHLY ONGOING SERIES MONTHLY ONGOING SERIES FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE “A FUN, ENGAGING READ.” - FLICKERING MYTH “PLENTY OF ACTION, INTRIGUE AND MYSTERY” READING WITH A FLIGHT RING © 2016 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. CELEBRATE THE CYBERMEN’S PAUL CORNELL (FOUR DOCTORS) 50TH ANNIVERSARY… WITH RETURNS TO DOCTOR WHO THE SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER THE THIRD DOCTOR FOR THRILLING ADVENTURES EVENT OF THE YEAR! OF THE THIRD DOCTOR AS Exiled from Gallifrey at the PLAYED BY JON PERTWEE! DOCTOR WHO very end of Time, Rassilon, fallen leader of the Time When something enormous Lords, has been captured by crashes into Bedfordshire, the last of the Cybermen. the Doctor, Jo Grant, and the forces of UNIT mobilize Now the Cybermen have immediately – and find access to time travel. With it, themselves in the middle every defeat is now a victory. of a pitched battle against a Every foe is now dead -- or terrifying invader... Cyberized! WRITERS STORY DOCTOR WHO GEORGE MANN & CAVAN SCOTT PAUL CORNELL ARTISTS ARTIST IVAN RODRIGUEZ, CHRISTOPHER JONES WALTER GIOVANNI & ALESSANDRO VITTI 32 PAGES • $3.99 5 ISSUE MINI-SERIES 32 PAGES • $3.99 5 ISSUE EVENT SERIES LAUNCHING AUGUST SUPREMACY OF THE CYBERMEN LAUNCHING JULY FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE CROSSOVER ADVENTURE STARRING THE NINTH, THE THIRD DOCTOR...LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE! TENTH, ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DOCTORS! Doctor Who, the Daleks, the Cybermen, TARDIS and all other characters and logos are trademarks of the BBC and are used under licence unless otherwise indicated. ONGOING ADVENTURES ONGOING ADVENTURES OF THE NINTH DOCTOR! OF THE TENTH DOCTOR! “A FUN READ!” “TREMENDOUS FUN” THE TENTH DOCTOR MULTIVERSITY COMICS BLEEDING COOL “HIGHLY ENJOYABLE AND “CAVAN SCOTT HAS AN EAR FOR DOCTOR WHO ENTERTAINING.” THE NINTH DOCTOR” READING WITH A FLIGHT RING COMIC BOOK RESOURCES “10 OUT OF 10!” “A DEFINITE MUST READ!” PROJECT FANDOM GEEK GIRL WORLD “HITS ALL THE RIGHT NOTES” “SPECTACULAR” HOW TO LOVE COMICS COMIC BOOK DAY WRITER CAVAN SCOTT WRITER NICK ABADZIS ARTISTS DOCTOR WHO ADRIANA MELO ARTISTS & CRIS BOLSON ELENA CASAGRANDE, ELEONORA CARLINI, THE NINTH DOCTOR 32 PAGES • $3.99 GEORGIA SPOSITO 32 PAGES • $3.99 MONTHLY ONGOING SERIES MONTHLY ONGOING SERIES FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE ONGOING ADVENTURES ONGOING ADVENTURES OF THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR! OF THE TWELFTH DOCTOR! ”COLORFUL AND FUN!” ”FEELS EXACTLY LIKE AN NEWSARAMA EPISODE OF THE TELEVISION THE TWELFTH DOCTOR SERIES.” - NERDIST ”THE ART IS FANTASTIC!” WIRED “A FANTASTIC ELEVENTH DOCTOR ADVENTURE. 9 OUT OF DOCTOR WHO ”I LOVED IT!” - AIN’T IT COOL 10!” - NEWSARAMA “THE CHARACTERISATION OF “A GOOD ENJOYABLE ROMP.” CAPALDI’S DOCTOR IS FLICKERING MYTH SPOT-ON” - COMIC BUZZ “COMPELLING” BLEEDING COOL WRITERS WRITER ROBBIE MORRISON ROB WILLIAMS & GEORGE MANN ARTISTS ARTISTS SIMON FRASER & RACHAEL STOTT & LEANDRO CASCO MARIANO LACLAUSTRA DOCTOR WHO 32 PAGES • $3.99 32 PAGES • $3.99 MONTHLY ONGOING SERIES MONTHLY ONGOING SERIES FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR Doctor Who, the Daleks, the Cybermen, TARDIS and all other characters and logos are trademarks of the BBC and are used under licence unless otherwise indicated. TORCHWOOD IS BACK, IN AN ALL-NEW ONGOING COMICS SERIES WRITTEN BY CAPTAIN JACK HIMSELF, JOHN BARROWMAN! Captain Jack Harkness is back in Cardiff, and there’s only one person he can turn to – the last person who expected to see him, Gwen Cooper! On the road, on the run, and under fire – can the pair put aside their differences and rebuild the heart of Torchwood, before its flame is stamped out forever?! WRITERS JOHN BARROWMAN & CAROLE E. BARROWMAN TORCHWOOD SERIES ARTISTS PASQUALE QUALANO & ANTONIO FUSO 32 PAGES • $3.99 ONGOING SERIES LAUNCHING JULY FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE THE OFFICIAL CONTINUATION OF THE TORCHWOOD SAGA! WRITTEN BY CAPTAIN JACK HIMSELF JOHN BARROWMAN! BBC, ‘TORCHWOOD’ and the Torchwood word marks, logos and devices are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and are used under license. ALL-NEW ANTHOLOGY BUILDING ON THE EXTENSIVE THE RETURN OF THE DARK SOULS: WINTER’S SPITE LORE OF BANDAI NAMCO’S HIT SELL-OUT SMASH-HIT VIDEO GAME SERIES! COMIC BASED IN THE WORLD OF THE GLOBAL HIT VIDEO GAME SERIES! Featuring the talents of the comic industry’s top creators! Beyond this tenuous fabric lies a place of banishment; a In a realm where hollowed world within a world where champions rise and fall with the frigid nights endure and the ages, where brave knights even the Old Lords fear to quest for absolution and tread. Only the deluded dare bonfires blaze against the venture there, yet in these times of misery, sometimes everdark, myth and legend madness is our only path will forever prevail... toward salvation... WRITERS GEORGE MANN & OTHERS WRITER GEORGE MANN DARK SOULS: ARTISTS ALAH QUAH & OTHERS ARTIST ALAH QUAH 32 PAGES • $3.99 32 PAGES • $3.99 TWO-PART STANDALONE 4 ISSUE MINI-SERIES LEGENDS OF THE FLAME LAUNCHING SEPTEMBER LAUNCHING NOVEMBER FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLE “FULL OF ACTION AND STORY” - COMIC TRASH DARK SOULS VOL.
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